Dialysis Industry Is Now the Most Concentrated in Healthcare, Study Finds, With Prices Far Higher in Monopoly Areas managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/dialysis-…

A Medicare reform cut billing fragmentation as planned, but it brought only modest gains in administrative efficiency and no clear impact on patient outcomes or hospital costs. Research by Riley League and Maggie Shi (Harris Policy). ow.ly/KXe450Wn7L2

NEW: Two dialysis giants control the industry — and they're gaming the healthcare system. DaVita and Fresenius are pushing out and intimidating patients, and sometimes refusing to send them to the hospital. It's all done to boost profits and make more off the dialysis business.

I enjoyed sitting down with Alec Opperman More Perfect Union to discuss the economics of the dialysis industry — very well reported and insightful segment

Some great insights on PE in health care. Worth reading.

Nice example of foreclosure for anyone teaching IO or strategy this fall: David made a tactical move in the protein arms race, announcing that it would use an undisclosed portion of its new funding to acquire Epogee, thus controlling the supply of E.P.G. David is increasing

Great writeup of an important new paper on private equity in health care

Congratulations to Professor Jetson Leder-Luis, Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law, on his appointment as Senior Advisor for Healthcare Fraud at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services! Read here: spr.ly/6010ActAG

Excited to take part in The Atlantic and @WashUOlin’s Business of Health summit on October 15. I'll be leading a discussion with Jesse Hunter and Aaron Chrisman on how ownership and investment models in health care can better align with long-term value and outcomes. Join

An extra day of check-clearing time makes account holders 65.5% more likely to cash a check than deposit it. In the September issue, by Ryan C. McDevitt (Ryan McDevitt) and Aaron Sojourner (Aaron Sojourner) zurl.co/g35Ci

Whistleblowers are a highly cost-effective way at stopping fraud in public programs. In the September issue, "Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare" by Jetson Leder-Luis Jetson zurl.co/Dze4Q

Privatizing Law Enforcement: The Economics of Whistleblowing marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Amazing! Showing how insurers use inflated transfer prices to skirt MLR requirements is easily worth a top publication, but I could never figure out how to do it. This job market paper casually does it in the throwaway “reduced form” section before the IO model!